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April 16, 2021
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La Geriatría de Enlace con residencias en la época de la COVID-19. Un nuevo modelo de coordinación que ha llegado para quedarse

Publicated to:Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia. 56 (3): 157-165 - 2021-05-01 56(3), DOI: 10.1016/j.regg.2021.01.002

Authors: Menéndez Colino, Rocío; Argentina, Francesca; Merello de Miguel, A; Barcons Marqués, Montserrat; Chaparro Jiménez, Blanca; Figueroa Poblete, Carolina; Alarcón Alarcón, Teresa; Martínez Peromingo, Francisco J; González Montalvo, Juan Ignacio

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Consejeria de Sanidad - Author
Hospital Universitario La Paz - Author
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Author
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Abstract

Older people living in nursing homes fulfil the criteria to be considered as geriatric patients, but they often do not have met their health care needs. Current deficits appeared as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. The need to improve the coordination between hospitals and nursing homes emerged, and in Madrid it materialized with the implantation of Liaison Geriatrics teams or units at public hospitals. The Sociedad Española de Geriatría y Gerontología has defined the role of the geriatricians in the COVID-19 pandemic and they have given guidelines about prevention, early detection, isolation and sectorization, training, care homes classification, patient referral coordination, and the role of the different care settings, among others. These units and teams also must undertake other care activities that have a shortfall currently, like nursing homes-hospital coordination, geriatricians visits to the homes, telemedicine sessions, geriatric assessment in emergency rooms, and primary care and public health services coordination. This paper describes the concept of Liaison Geriatrics and its implementation at the Autonomous Community of Madrid hospitals as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Activity data from a unit at a hospital with a huge number of nursing homes in its catchment area are reported. The objective is to understand the need of this activity in order to avoid the current fragmentation of care between hospitals and nursing homes. This activity should be consolidated in the future.

Keywords

asistencia geriátricacovid-19geriatric carehealth-care resourcesnursing homesrecursos de atención sanitariaAgedAged, 80 and overAsistencia geriátricaCovid-19Emergency service, hospitalGeriatric assessmentGeriatric careGeriatriciansGeriatricsHealth services administrationHealth-care resourcesHomes for the agedHospitals, publicHumansNursing homesPandemicsPatient isolationPrimary health carePublic health administrationRecursos de atención sanitariaReferral and consultationResidencias de personas mayoresSars-cov-2Seroepidemiologic studiesSpainTelemedicine

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia, Q4 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in Medicine (Miscellaneous), give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.21, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 5.58 (source consulted: Dimensions Oct 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-10-11, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 14
  • Europe PMC: 7

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-10-11:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 102.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 130 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 23.05.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 35 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MENENDEZ COLINO, ROCIO) and Last Author (GONZALEZ MONTALVO, JUAN IGNACIO).